Question
A poem opening “Welcome, son of thy great father” was written to commemorate this author’s elder son upon his arrival in South Australia to be its Governor. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author whose son Hallam was his official biographer. This poet wrote In Memoriam A.H.H. for a different Hallam.
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson [or Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson]
[10m] Tennyson remarked, “Unlike John the Baptist, I cannot live on locusts and wild honey” in response to this periodical’s school of “bush poetry.” Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson argued over bush life in a debate named for this magazine.
ANSWER: The Bulletin [accept the “Bulletin debate”]
[10h] Arthur Hallam asks “Forgive me, friend, if I find fault…” in a reply to In Memoriam from this poet’s Book of Answers, which also contains the “Coy Mistress’s” reply to Andrew Marvell. This Australian was dubbed “the twentieth century’s greatest eighteenth-century poet.”
ANSWER: A. D. Hope [or Alec Derwent Hope]
<Literature - British Literature - Poetry>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UBC | Thompson et al. | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |